More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Jurakuji Juraku-ji is temple number 7  on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage. I visited when I walked that pilgrimage but this time I am walki...

Hagi in Yamaguchi is a former castle town that is home to a lot of historical and traditional architecture including several Preservation Di...

The shrine was established to protect the castle built by the Yamana Clan on top of the mountain at the end of the 16th century. A few years...

  Continuing with the  second day of my in-depth exploration of the Sea of Japan coastline,I left the bounds of Gotsu and entered the realm ...

Myoonji Myo-On-ji is temple number 15 on the Sasaguri Pilgrimage in Fukuoka. If you follow the suggested route it is the 11th temple you vis...

  My last stop on day49 of my first walk around Kyushu was Kongoji. temple number 58 on the Kyushu Pilgriage, which I have recently read cla...

  There wasn't a lot of statuary, nor greenery, at Taishoji, but I ws taken by the double dragons at the temizuya. Fudo Myo is the hinzo...

  As I approached the 101st temple of the Kyushu pilgrimage I was not sure I was at the right place as it really didn(t look like a temple a...

  For several hours while heading for the next temple on the pilgrimage, I seemed to be heading directly for some kind of multi-colored towe...

  The Hachiman shrine in Nobara near Arao in Kumamoto is a fairly typical local shrine, though the entrnce gate is larger than most. The ban...